The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead In summer luxury,--he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
John Keats was born in London
in 1795 and died in Rome, of tuberculosis, in 1821. Major works include
Ode to a Nightingale; The Eve of St. Agnes; Ode on a Grecian Urn; La
Belle Dame sans Merci; Lamia; and To Autumn. The son of a
livery-stable manager, he was considered "not literary" at school.
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,